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Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating y... |
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Bram Stoker
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker was a sick... |
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Bell, Inventor of the Telephone -1876
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish scientist and inventor who emigrated to Canada. Today, Bell is widely considered as one of the foremost developers of the telephone,... |
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Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park... |
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Hindenburg, German Field Marshal
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a German Field Marshal and statesman. An important figure during... |
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Paul Gauguin, Post-Impressionist
Paul Eugène Henri Gauguin. French Post-Impressionist painter, known for his use of lush colour and flat, two-dimensional forms, particularly in scenes from life in Britta... |
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The Path of Women's Rights
Legacy '98: Official Web Site for the 150 Year Aniversary of the Women's Rights Movement... |
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Environmental Movement History
Important events in the history of the American environmental movement... |
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Ivan Pavlov, Russian Physician
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to... |
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National Baseball Hall of Fame
In 1845, the New York Knickerbockers became the first organized baseball club. Four years later, at a meeting held April 24, 1849, the club adopted an official uniform: b... |
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Taiping Rebellion, Hong Xiuquan
The Taiping Rebellion (or Rebellion of Great Peace) was a large-scale revolt against the authority and forces of the Qing Government in China. It was conducted from 1850... |
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Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant, French novelist and short-story writer, of an ancient Norman family. He worked in a government office at Paris and became known c.1880 as the most bril... |
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Stevenson, Writer of Jekyll and Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh’s New Town in 1850. He died 44 years later on a small Samoan island in the Pacific. During his short life he travelled the wo... |
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Historic American Sheet Music
A selection of representative pieces for each decade between 1850 and 1920. Also included is a chronology of major events in politics & government, international affairs,... |
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Emergence of Advertising in America
Volney B. Palmer opens the first American advertising agency... |
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